cdspeed -- set the max speed of your cd-rom drive

Modern cdrom drives are too fast. It can take several seconds
on a 60x speed cdrom drive to spin up and read data from
the drive.  The result is that these drives are just a lot slower
than a 8x or 24x drive.  This is especially true if you are only
occasionally (e.g every 5 seconds) reading a small file. This
utility limits the speed, makes the drive less noisy and the
access time faster.

This works of course only if your drive supports speed 
limitation. All "racing" ATAPI cdrom drives that I have seen 
sofar did support it.

Note: recently speed control was also added to the eject command.
cdspeed is therefore now a bit obsolate. 
eject is available from http://eject.sourceforge.net/ but all Linux
disrtibutions include the eject command already.
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Installation:

to compile type:
make 
to install cdspeed to /usr/bin type:
make install

You can copy the script cdmount to /usr/bin
it will first reduce the speed and then mount the cd.
See the explanations inside the cdmount script for
further details.
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History:

0.1: 2001-01-21: first version
0.2: 2002-11-11 Eric Piel <piel(a)tutor.cc.tut.fi>: possiblity to 
     set the speed to 0 as the maximum speed
0.3: 2003-09-10 added a man page
0.4, 2004-03-31 Roberto Foglietta <me(at)roberto.foglietta.name>:
     added the init script for Mandrake distributions
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Author: Guido Socher, guido.socher@linuxfocus.org
Copyright: GPL (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
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This program is available from:
http://pepper.linuxfocus.org/~guido or 
http://www.toppoint.de/~utuxfan/g/
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